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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 19, 2010 23:13:19 GMT
Be prepared to vomit a little bit in your mouth as you read this. Especially when you get to the last paragraph. Rusty, I disagreed with your scriptwriting, but I thought that your heart was in the right place. That you and your crew at least got the BASICS. But then... you always did say that the TV movie was your favourite... face!palm www.thrfeed.com/2010/01/fox-readying-us-version-of-torchwood-.htmlThe only thing that keeps me from sobbing into my shirt is the basic research fail which may or may not invalidate the rest of the article. Doctor Who did not start in 2003. Not in any version or universe that I know of.
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Post by jjpor on Jan 20, 2010 20:47:05 GMT
Oh, Rusty...
*shakes head*
It's mainly the last paragraph that worries me - I mean, RTD can do what he likes with TW (unlike Who, he did actually create it, after all - something I read somewhere else suggested that "TW USA" would follow on from CoE rather than being a complete startover, and I could live with that, but even if it was a proper reboot, I just don't care enough about TW to have an opinion one way or the other), but if he and his cohorts even *think* about trying to "reboot" Who for the US market... Well, I may be being all close-minded and it might be like the greatest thing ever, but the last time they tried it, well...
So yes, Rusty would finally be dead to me if he did that, because he'd only be doing it for the money/power etc - one version of Who ought to be enough for anyone. Dead to me, I say!
Mind you, if it was on Fox, I understand that when it comes to SF series they have a habit of shoving them around various niche timeslots and then axeing them after thirteen episodes or so...
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Post by librarylover on Jan 21, 2010 3:26:32 GMT
This is what drives me crazy about television in the US. They have very few original ideas anymore, and most of the ones they do have they don't leave on the air long enough to gain an audience. Then they re-make a UK TV show when they could just broadcast the UK show. I mean, if the original was in a foreign language I could understand the re-make, but come on! Although . . . BBC America does regularly suggest turning on closed captioning, so you can understand the "ridiculous" British accents. (Their word, not mine!) I rarely have a problem understanding British accents, but I have a friend who can't watch the Harry Potter films because he can't understand what they're saying.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 21, 2010 3:46:34 GMT
Subtitles...?
Actually, I can see that. I keep being employed as translator for Life on Mars...
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Post by jjpor on Jan 21, 2010 22:36:56 GMT
Heheh ;D
I may be completely off the mark here, but I have an inkling that for a lot of US viewers who like Brit TV, the "Britishness" of it is part of the appeal. This certainly seems to be the case with Doctor Who, anyway, which is as British as saying "toodle-pip" to the local Bobby as you drink your warm beer and watch the cricket match on the village green...* So, surely you lose that with an adaptation?
I have actually seen the US version of Life on Mars, and I didn't mind it that much, you know. I think Harvey Keitel was good in it, anyway, and the 70s New York setting pleasantly reminded me of many classic crime movies such as the French Connection, Serpico etc. However...as good as he might have been, Keitel was _not_ the "Manc Lion"... not in any way, shape or form...
*Disclaimer: Neither myself nor any British person I know of has ever done any one of these things; they only happen in Miss Marple and American TV shows, but you know what I mean... ;D
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